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The Late James Calder, a contemporary of the Scottish Martyrs. An original article from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1847.
Published by Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh, 1847
Magazine / Periodical
Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 16.5 x 26 cms. Category: Tait's Edinburgh Magazine; Scottish Martyrs; Scottish Martyrs. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 12 x 19 cms. Category: Celebrated Trials; Scottish Martyrs; Scottish Martyrs. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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A Narrative of the Sufferings of T.F. Palmer, and W. Skirving. 1797.
Published by Monthly Review, London, 1797
Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 1 page. An original essay from the Monthly Review, 1770. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Monthly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. Small broadsheet (23 x 35.5 cms). In nice clean condition, and very readable. Size: 23 x 35.5 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Chartism; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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The Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq., Younger of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, upon Friday and Saturday the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, on a charge of sedition. The whole accurately taken down in short hand ; with an appendix, containing all the papers referred to in the course of the trial
Published by Alexander Scott - Gazetteer Office, Edinburgh, 1793
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA ANZAAB ESA ILAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Muir was a Scottish political reformer and lawyer who was ultimately accused of sedition, was the first political prisoner transported to Australia, from which he later escaped. Muir was sentenced to 14 years transportation for the the crime of sedition; for campaigning for parliamentary reform and for distributing copies of Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man'. His trial became one of the great sensations of the day; he was one of the group known as the 'Scottish Martyrs', who were sentenced in Scotland in 1793-4. Large 12mo, 4, 128pp, rebound in a later half cloth and marble boards, leather spine label, revised engraved portrait frontis of Muir showing him from the waist up, by J. Kay. OCLC 17619597, recorded at 8 locations. Libraries Australia ID 62770710 cites one copy at Queensland Univ. of Technology. Third edition, corrected and greatly enlarged.
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The Trial of William Skirving, Secretary to the British Convention, before the High Court of Justiciary, on the 6th and 7th January, 1794; for Sedition.
Publication Date: 1794
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Association Member: ABA ILAB PBFA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
First edition. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Very good in nineteenth-century pebble-grain cloth. 168pp. Edinburgh printed, for Skirving, Along with Thomas Fysshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Alexander Scott and Maurice Margarot, William Skirving formed the group known as the Scottish Martyrs, who were tried and sentence to transportation to Port Jackson in the last years of the eighteenth century. The men petitioned for parliamentary reform at a time when the French Revolution had heightened tensions in the United Kingdom. Skirving was arrested three times before being convicted for sedition, and transported on the Surprise, which arrived at Port Jackson on 25 October 1794. Skirving died of dysentery two years later. Ferguson, 197.
